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Go Ga-Ga over the Bedazzling Dubai Shopping Festival 2012

The Dubai Shopping Festival, with its mammoth array of discounts, prizes and entertainment makes for delightful holidays. Predictably, millions plan shopping holidays to bag some of the greatest bargains and discounts.Date : Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Dubai Shopping Festival 2012
The Dubai Shopping Festival is perhaps one of the most renowned shopping fêtes in the world. An Eden for devoted shoppers, a dream come true event for shopping connoisseurs, Shangri-la for family vacationers and a fairytale for kids, Dubai Shopping Festival is truly a blissful event for everyone. Since its inception on February 15, 1996 as a retail event, the annual Dubai Shopping Festival has attained the cult status. Every year, this mega shopping fest tempts countless shopping fanciers from across the borders. Dubai rightfully lives up to its epithet, 'city of merchants' and no holidays to Dubai are ever complete without some indulging retail therapy. However, this epithet literally comes to life when the amazing shopping fest breathes to life with billions of Dirhams spent by visitors. Devout shoppers often save money by booking Luxury hotels and cutting down on other costs of their luxury holidays to Dubai and end up splashing out on shopping spree during this time. A wide range of exotic products like jewelleries, perfumes and watches are offered at throw away prices during this time. People from different countries come together to shop, eat and have endless fun rightly living up to the slogan of this fest 'One World, One Family, One Festival'. This year round as well, Dubai is all set to offer endless entertainment, intense shopping and blissful experiences with the fest. Here is a little insight into the upcoming Dubai Shopping Festival 2012.

Dubai Shopping Festival, 2012 Events

Once again Dubai is ready to wilfully seduce millions of shoppers from across the globe. The 17th edition of the Dubai Shopping Festival, 2012 will run for about thirty-two days, starting on 5th January and ending on 5thth February. Like previous years, gifts and rewards worth millions of Dirhams will be given out in daily raffles. Malls and souqs will compete to outdo each other by attracting customers with roaring bargains. Besides shopping, entertaining concerts, performances and a plethora of engaging activities will ensure gratifying Dubai holidays.

Mega Raffles

The Dubai Events and Promotions Establishment (Depe) has revealed the details of the Infiniti Mega Raffle campaign that will be held during the Dubai Shopping Festival, 2012. The mind-boggling daily raffles ensure that the visitors indulging in the shopping mania are rewarded manifold. This year the winners of the daily draws will take home a luxurious Infiniti QX56 model worth Dh350,000 plus Dh100,000 in cash. Besides this, three bonus winners will be drawn as part of the bumper raffle on the final day of Dubai Shopping Festival, 2012.

Endless Entertainment

This event will witness scores of entertaining performances like cartoon and dance shows, circuses and jazz concerts to ensure a gala time for shoppers. Families vacationing in Dubai during this time will be able to participate in exciting theme shows like that of Tarzan, Alligator and Dolphin, Toon Land, Casper and Pokeman. Swashbucklers will be able to partake in heaps of heart pounding activities such as rowing, skating, Ice hockey, Russian ballet, football, hockey and tennis. Likewise, as dinning remains a key element of the festival, gourmands can look forward to a unique gastronomic affair.

Dazzling Venues

The Dubai Shopping Festival imbues a madding shopping frenzy environ to every possible nook and cranny of this glittering emirate. The amazing shopping precincts here including shopping zones in the different Dubai Hotels become hedonistically alive during this time of the year. Some of the action-packed bargain paradises are Beniyas Square, Al Satwa's Al Dhiyafah Road, Al Rigga Road, Al Faheidi Road, and Al Karama. While the grand Mall of the Emirates along with numerous other opulent malls will be at dazzling best like last year, the traditional souqs will glitter with huge discounts and amazing bargains. The 'heart of urban Arabia' or Dubai's traditional souqs pack in roughly every conceivable items under the sun and even beyond. The traditional souqs or local markets are immensely famous for rolling out luxury deals on particular products like gold, electronics and spices. It certainly goes without saying, the Dubai Shopping Festival, 2012 will make for the best time in the near future to check out these quaint souqs for mind-boggling discounts.

Time to Steal the Deal

Dubai Shopping Festival usually ensures the best time to find the most lucrative hotels and travel deals as this amazing emirate sees huge streams of tourists during this time of the year. Undeniably, hotels and airlines often vie of attention of the huge tourist influx. Numerous Dubai Hotels and airlines offer plethora of attractive offers such as 'pay 5 stay 6' or etc, during this time of the year to entice the tourists. This amazing shopping fest leads to a sudden burst of luxury hotels and airfares making for the best time to zero down upon the remunerative travel and hotel deals.